ABOUT THE NMTAC

The Northwestern Medicine Transplant Advisory Council (NMTAC) is comprised of people who have had life-changing experiences with Northwestern Medicine’s Comprehensive Transplant Center (CTC). We are a grateful group of organ recipients and donors who are committed to giving back to the CTC and the transplant community.

Our Council has many goals. First and foremost, we want to financially support the CTC’s groundbreaking organ transplantation research and programs by establishing an ongoing culture of philanthropy. We have a built a community where organ recipients, their families, and others can unite. Our Council members believe that great things can be accomplished when people are passionate, committed to a shared vision, and inspired to give back.

OUR MISSION

Our inspired group of organ recipients, donors and their families is united in our mission to support the future of organ transplantation at Northwestern Medicine while connecting and supporting the transplant community.

“Each morning it seems we are greeted with yet another headline insisting we won’t believe what “they” are doing in medicine. But we never see the “they”. Tonight, I saw them – creating organs built on bio-scaffolds that someday will live inside a human. When I saw those organs, suspended in place, I touched just under my ribs where my donor’s liver now resides and felt a mystical intimacy – the mystical intimacy of making the future.”

Rob Humrickhouse

“In the beginning I was scared of Transplant. It seemed very scary to me. I didn’t realize how I would feel the day they rolled me back to surgery for my new liver. I felt no fear. I trusted God and I trusted doctors and staff to be the best for me. I knew I was on this journey for a purpose that was bigger than any fear.”

Colleen Pitts

“About a month before my liver donation I was fortunate to attend an event hosted by Transplant Village. At that event I was able to talk with other people that were either going through or have gone through the same things as me. It was so refreshing to meet people that really understood what I was going through.”

Rebecca O’Marrah

“I received my transplant at Northwestern on June 19, 2015. The donor was my youngest stepson. I live in Pennsylvania and came to Northwestern to do the stem cell clinical trial initially. I have had an outstanding – could not be more pleased with – experience at Northwestern from starting the process (and trying to do the clinical trial with stem cells) through the actual transplant and through the follow-up. Everyone has acted consistent with the motto “Patients First”, and as the patient I have truly felt that way always. Eternally grateful.”

FOUNDER’S CIRCLE

Our inspired group of organ recipients, donors and their families is united in our mission to support the future of organ transplantation at Northwestern Medicine while connecting and supporting the transplant community.